Red Apple Montessori - Learning Through Discovery

Red Apple Montessori is a beautiful learning environment set on the lap of nature. We are located in the Alpharetta/Milton area (intersection of Morris Rd and McGinnis Ferry Rd with Bethany Bend) off Windward Parkway (exit 11, GA-400).

Our school is a community of children, much like a real family, encompassing children of two or three age levels into a family group. As children grow older and more capable, they assume a great role in helping to care for the environment and meet the needs of younger children.

Our classrooms are spacious, bright and well equipped with new materials.

Our Environment: A place where children

Are treated and respected as individuals
Set their own pace of learning
Gain self-confidence and self-respect
Achieve independence, self-motivation, and inner-discipline
Develop attention, concentration, and a love of order
Are given freedom within limits
Foster a sense of awe and wonder
Raise their curiosity, creativity, and interests
Evolve into a community

Indoor Environment: The environment is designed to meet the needs, interests, abilities, and development of the children. The environment has been carefully designed with the community of children in mind, to best fit the ever-changing needs of the children.

Outdoor Environment: Children at this age are full of interest and inquiry in knowing what the world is all about. The absorbent mind can be filled with many integrated impressions of the wonder and beauty of the natural world.

Our Director, Dr. Nisha Eappen feels deeply that the child is truly a miraculous being, and encourages children to use their hands, head and heart to discover the wonders around them as they make sense of the world.

Nisha is a trained observer of children’s learning and behavior, and uses her knowledge of child development to help the child’s learning with a new lesson, a fresh challenge, or a reinforcement of basic ground rules. Whenever children make mistakes, she believes in allowing them to discover their own error through further manipulation of the self-correcting material. This practice agrees with Dr. Montessori's principle that a child learns through experience.

The focus of activity in the Montessori setting is on children’s learning. Children work individually or in small, self-directed groups. There are very few whole group lessons.